Police said investiators were able to trace Randle’s cell phone until it was turned off and are checking the trace locations for pictures, surveillance footage or witnesses who may have seen the girl or the suspect’s vehicle, NBC 5 reported.

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Origin and Etymology of suspect

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin suspectus, from past participle of suspicere

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And one 2014 report from George Washington University suspects that activated charcoal may have caused colitis (inflammation in the colon) in one patient who repeatedly used it to detoxify his body on his own.

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Origin and Etymology of suspect

Middle English, from Latin suspectare, frequentative of suspicere to look up at, regard with awe, suspect, from sub-, sus- up, secretly + specere to look at — more at sub-, spy